1 Luxembourg, October 2006 Nadim Ahmad, Statistics Directorate, OECD OECD Conference: Assessing the Feasibility of Micro-Data Access Proposal for a Pilot Study

2 Remote Access Pilot Study Seeking Volunteer countries To investigate RA options with business data Same dataset as SBS statistics

3 Remote Access Pilot Study Step 1: To reproduce SBS data already provided to OECD:– 4 digit and size class. Step 2: To produce descriptive statistics: variance, medians, including for composite indicators such as labour productivity, profit/turnover, profit/ employee etc and regression coefficients e.g. VA per employee and business size. Step 3: Investigate scope for longitudinal data set indicators

4 Remote Access Pilot Study Turnover Production at producers prices and/or factor costs Value added at basic prices and/or factor costs Gross operating surplus Total purchases of goods and services Change in stocks of goods and services Purchases of energy products Gross investment in tangible goods Gross investment in land Gross investment in existing buildings and structures Gross investment in machinery and equipment Sales of tangible investment goods Employment, number of persons engaged and number of employees Employment, number of females employees Employment, number of employees in full time equivalent units Hours worked by employees Compensation of labour, all persons engaged and employees Wages and salaries, all persons engaged and employees Other employers social contributions, employees Number of enterprises and/or establishments